Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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Working at the nexus of national security & VC. Father to a superhero. Lets live forever and travel the stars ✨ Partner @marque_vc & Adjunct @randcorporation
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2015
1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep. "Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forward operating bases with space for 4 sentries". An early sketch:
Now that Andor has given us a glimpse inside the Empire’s bureaucracy and military industrial complex, I want a “Pentagon Wars” style movie about the development of the AT-ST and the corners that were cut which resulted in it becoming easy prey for a bunch of Ewoks!.#StarWars
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In determining who is an indigenous person, what year do we use where we froze the ledger of who has the eternal right to land or do we just set it arbitrarily in each instance where it feels right?. “Decolonization” is a logically bankrupt idea unless you’re talking about people.
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Once Marco Rubio has secured all of the Cabinet positions one by one, he will declare himself the heir of Trump and will install a mini resolute desk in the Oval Office right next to 47.
Marco Rubio realizing he’s about to become Attorney General or FBI Director
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This is so profoundly messed up.
Marc is right: a rural honor-roll student faces long odds when roughly half of Ivy seats go to international students or diversity admits. BUT - he left out that 1/4th of the seats are still held for legacies, big-donor families, and varsity recruits. Here's how much being
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RT @RealCynicalFox: One of Adm. Fisher’s more famous quotes goes like this:. “Humanizing war!? You might as well talk about humanizing Hel….
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RT @shaunmmaguire: Zohran's delightful father Mahmood. Loves to justify suicide bombing. And advocates for Intifada. And blames 9/11 on Ame….
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Is it possible David Sacks was wrong all along 😱.
Pence: Trump is realizing Putin doesn't want peace, he wants Ukraine. Zelenskyy’s ready to negotiate, but attacks continue. Glad aid halt was reversed. Under us, Ukraine got real support — missiles, not blankets. Putin didn’t invade on our watch. 1/
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By mosquitos… do you mean HOA board members?.
Doing some market research - what would you pay for a Mini-Archimedes that plugged into the wall and killed mosquitos?
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Weather modification is passé, weather control is where it’s at. Humans have been modifying weather without intent for centuries, it’s time we shape it to human needs.
Cloud seeding in populated areas seems risky. I do wonder if we should be doing this kind of thing at all.
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RT @jenpwcoleman: Pray for these angels… they are missing from Camp Mystic. I’ll keep adding as I get them.
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Clarity of thought.
The solution to obesity was ultimately technological, not social. The solution to Covid was ultimately technological, not social. The solution to climate change will ultimately be technological, not social. Why do we think the solution to low fertility has to be social?.
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Was just looking at the national security predictions we made for our LPs for 2025 and. we were pretty good. From the summary. //BREAK//. NATO/UKRAINE: We expect to see the preponderance of the forces pushing for a pivot to China and away from Europe/Ukraine. This won’t.
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🤦♂️.
While @AFResearchLab has a known reputation for wasteful SBIR funding, perhaps less well covered are the ways in which its incompetence actively creates security risks. One illustration that has caught our eye has been Intelligent Fusion, which has received $20M+ from AFRL.
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RT @zoecabina: One of my most vivid memories of a music festival is Australia Day, 2011. I was 16, surrounded by sweaty, chemically enhance….
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Internet sensation and totally not a Russian plant.
Hi, I'm Ivan - a totally-not-suspicious aerospace prodigy. I just happen to have a charming Russian accent, a past internship at Sukhoi (no big deal), and a mild obsession with drone jet propulsion systems.
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BAD news for puffy. If they’re hung on racketeering (which is really hard to prove) he’s gonna be found guilty on almost all the basic charges.
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I love 2X2 matrices. I know they get a bad rap but I think that there are often simple and profound truths elucidated by the 4 buckets. Here is the newest one. It comes from a private discussion about marital financial dynamics and their correlation to divorce. These are some
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“Seize the means of production” lol. Do people still talk like that? He’s not just a commie d-bag but he’s one with the intellectual depth of a middle schooler. 😭.
“The end goal is seizing the means of production”. Good luck with this, New York City.
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Mamdani is toxic. It’s absurd to believe that he won’t condemn “Globalize the intifada” because he won’t condemn any language. I’m sure if people were chanting calls for violence against Muslims in the streets of NYC he would feel free to condemn it.
I watched & listened. He won’t condemn the language because he supports the intifada. He grew up wearing a keffiyeh. He founded SJP on his campus. He marched (& was arrested) against Israel on Oct 13 (6 days after brutal terrorist massacre). He supports BDS. He is and will be.
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🌶️We've lost the 3rd Offset its Time for Something New. Since the end of WW2 the Department of Defense has pursued a series of offset strategies designed to provide the U.S. an asymmetrical advantage. The most recent of these strategies was a miscue, which has left us in a
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